"This Handbook captures the salient features of Middle Eastern economies and critically examines the public policy responses required to address the challenges and opportunities across the region. Bringing together wide-ranging perspectives from carefully selected and renowned subject...

1. One hundred years of oil income and the Iranian economy : a curse or a blessing? / Kamiar Mohaddes and M. Hashem Pesaran -- 2. Institutional change, policy challenges and macroeconomic performance, 1979-2004 / Hassan Hakimian -- 3. The political economy of petro populism and reform, 1997-2011...